Bible Verses About Disobedient Children
Ranked by the OpenBible.info topical community
These are the Bible verses most often cited for disobedient children, ranked by the OpenBible.info topical community across 88,582 votes, led by Ephesians 6:1-3. Each passage links to its verse page or the interactive map; scripture is the King James Version.
Top verses about Disobedient Children
Ephesians 6:1-32,819 votes
Children, obey your parents in the Lord: for this is right.
Proverbs 30:172,721 votes
The eye that mocketh at his father, and despiseth to obey his mother, the ravens of the valley shall pick it out, and the young eagles shall eat it.
Deuteronomy 21:18-212,565 votes
If a man have a stubborn and rebellious son, which will not obey the voice of his father, or the voice of his mother, and that, when they have chastened him, will not hearken unto them:
Ephesians 5:62,558 votes
Let no man deceive you with vain words: for because of these things cometh the wrath of God upon the children of disobedience.
Leviticus 20:92,542 votes
For every one that curseth his father or his mother shall be surely put to death: he hath cursed his father or his mother; his blood shall be upon him.
Ephesians 2:22,400 votes
Wherein in time past ye walked according to the course of this world, according to the prince of the power of the air, the spirit that now worketh in the children of disobedience:
Exodus 21:172,381 votes
And he that curseth his father, or his mother, shall surely be put to death.
Proverbs 13:242,298 votes
He that spareth his rod hateth his son: but he that loveth him chasteneth him betimes.
Proverbs 23:13-142,255 votes
Withhold not correction from the child: for if thou beatest him with the rod, he shall not die.
2 Timothy 3:22,217 votes
For men shall be lovers of their own selves, covetous, boasters, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy,
Colossians 3:62,201 votes
For which things’ sake the wrath of God cometh on the children of disobedience:
1 Samuel 15:232,197 votes
For rebellion is as the sin of witchcraft, and stubbornness is as iniquity and idolatry. Because thou hast rejected the word of the Lord, he hath also rejected thee from being king.
Exodus 21:152,196 votes
And he that smiteth his father, or his mother, shall be surely put to death.
James 4:172,180 votes
Therefore to him that knoweth to do good, and doeth it not, to him it is sin.
Romans 5:192,123 votes
For as by one man’s disobedience many were made sinners, so by the obedience of one shall many be made righteous.
Mark 7:9-102,089 votes
And he said unto them, Full well ye reject the commandment of God, that ye may keep your own tradition.
Romans 6:231,993 votes
For the wages of sin is death; but the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.
Matthew 15:41,983 votes
For God commanded, saying, Honour thy father and mother: and, He that curseth father or mother, let him die the death.
Leviticus 26:14-161,701 votes
But if ye will not hearken unto me, and will not do all these commandments;
John 3:16-191,632 votes
For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.
Revelation 1:11,444 votes
The Revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave unto him, to shew unto his servants things which must shortly come to pass; and he sent and signified it by his angel unto his servant John:
Romans 1:301,287 votes
Backbiters, haters of God, despiteful, proud, boasters, inventors of evil things, disobedient to parents,
Deuteronomy 5:91,204 votes
Thou shalt not bow down thyself unto them, nor serve them: for I the Lord thy God am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth generation of them that hate me,
Acts 1:1-261,191 votes
The former treatise have I made, O Theophilus, of all that Jesus began both to do and teach,
Proverbs 15:51,061 votes
A fool despiseth his father’s instruction: but he that regardeth reproof is prudent.
What does the Bible say about disobedient children?
Readers most often cite Ephesians 6:1-3 on the subject of disobedient children. Across 88,582 votes, 25 passages are commonly cited for this topic, including Proverbs 30:17, Deuteronomy 21:18-21, Ephesians 5:6. This page lists all 25 in ranked order, quoted in the King James Version, with each linked to its cross-references.